Word Splash
Make a sentence out of the following words.
Muckraker(s), Progressive Era, Upton
Sinclair, Big Business
Three Minutes….GO!

Picture Analysis
 Use the Worksheet to answer the questions

Take Aways
 Assassination of McKinley
 Roosevelt- The True Progressive
 TR and Big Business

http://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=6G
Kuj_QP3S0

Writing Prompt
 Who is your favorite super hero?
 What is their super power?
 Why is this person your favorite?
 Write a minimum of 5 lines please.

T.R.’s Legacy
 What do you think T.R.’s legacy will be?

Assassination of McKinley
 Shot by an anarchist named Leon
Czolgolsz (Chal-gosh).
 Teddy Roosevelt took the presidency on
September 14, 1901.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBIkpCJuRU

T.R. and BIG Business
 Believed in “good trusts” and “bad trusts”

Bad Trust- unfair, takes advantage of American public
 T.R. “the Trustbuster”
 someone who wants to destroy all trusts
 T.R. just wanted to regulate them.

T.R. and BIG Business
 Began to crack down on Big Business

Railroads main target!
 Broke up monopolies and trusts
 Gained support from laborers and working class
James J. Hill
E.H. Harriman
Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan

Stop and Think
 How did Teddy Roosevelt become president?
 How did he handle big business and trusts?

Square Deal
 Everyone should have a fair opportunity to succeed

Farmers, Consumers,
Workers, Owners

Pure Food and Drug Act
 T.R. shocked by reading The
Jungle
 Officials inspected meat packing plants
 Passed in 1906

Must list all ingredients on packaging

Must end all false advertising of food

Conservation
 Believed in conservation of land

Loved outdoors

Created national parks
 Protected against deforestation

Homework
 Word Splash
 Create ONE sentence using ALL of the following words:
 Teddy Roosevelt, Progressive(s),
Trustbuster, Big Business, Square Deal.

Other Major Accomplishments for
 Big Stick
Diplomacy-
“Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” -
TR
TR

The Great White
FleetU.S. Navy

Toured the world to “Show Off” superior Navy.

The Great White Fleet

Other Major
Accomplishments for TR
 The Panama Canal

Passageway between the
Atlantic and Pacific
Ocean.

It was NOT completed until after TR’s presidency, but began during it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPCQy32tGg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzJZ6U5kkbo

The Panama Canal

Homework
 Of Teddy Roosevelt’s accomplishments, choose two and explain why you think they are the two most important.

Trustbusting, the square deal (be specific), conservation, the panama canal, the great white fleet
 Write a minimum of 8 lines total and underline the two choices in your paragraph!

Warm Up
 Get up and stand in front of TR’s accomplishment that you think was most important
 Be ready to defend your choice!
 GO!

Taft and the Progressives
 TR wanted Taft to replace him.
 Taft was a Progressive.
 Very different personality than
TR
William Howard
Taft

Opinion Splits on Taft
 Taft supported many of TR’s ideas
 graduated income, safety laws for miners, 8 hour work day, child labor laws.
 However…
 Lost a lot of support with the
Payne-Aldrich Tariff .

Raised taxes

Taft losses support
 Ballinger-Pinchot affair

Went against Teddy’s conservation ideas
 Because of this, Roosevelt and Taft were no longer friends

Stop and Think
 How was Taft different from Roosevelt?
 Why did he and TR have a falling out?

1912: A Three Way Election
 Roosevelt ran for President again.

Represented the Bull Moose Party
 Taft represented the Republican party.
 Woodrow Wilson would represent the
Democratic Party.

Woodrow Wilson
 Wilson was a
Progressive,
 Represented the
Democratic Party
 Wilson would go on to beat out Taft in 1912


New Freedom
Wilson’s policies

Continued to break up trusts.
 Believed in competitive business.

New Freedom
 Supported lowering taxes and increasing foreign trade

Wilson’s Accomplishments
 **Federal Reserve Act**- 3 tiered banking system

1 st level- Federal Reserve Board ran the system

2 nd level- 12 Federal Reserve Banks serve as
“banks for other banks”

3 rd level- smaller private banks- could borrow from 2 nd level. Offered affordable banking

Wrap Up
 How is Wilson different from both TR and
Taft?
 Explain two policies/accomplishments of
Wilson.